Triple

T2250435
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Smiley’s People E49603 entity
Predicate character P662 FINISHED
Object Saul Enderby
Saul Enderby is a senior British intelligence officer in John le Carré’s George Smiley novels, notably portrayed as a politically attuned bureaucrat who contrasts with Smiley’s more traditional, moralistic spycraft.
E246497 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (4 steps)

Every LLM step that produced this triple, in pipeline order — named-entity classification, the disambiguation choices (the exact options shown, with the pick highlighted), and the generated description. The batch + timestamp of each is in the Provenance table below.

NER Named-entity recognition gpt-5-mini
Instruction
Given a phrase, classify it is english named entity (e.g., persons, organizations, works of art) in Latin script, or not (e.g., literals, dates, URLs, verbose phrases). For disambiguation, the statement where the phrase occurs as object is also given. Please return a JSON object with `phrase` (string, the phrase being analyzed) and `is_ne` (boolean, indicating whether the phrase is a Named Entity).
Input
Phrase: Saul Enderby | Statement: [Smiley’s People, character, Saul Enderby]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Saul Enderby
Context triple: [Smiley’s People, character, Saul Enderby]
  • A. Julius Enderby
    Julius Enderby is a high-ranking, somewhat fussy and conservative police commissioner in Isaac Asimov’s science fiction novel "The Caves of Steel."
  • B. Danny O'Neill
    Danny O'Neill is the charming, jazz-loving bandleader protagonist of the 1940 musical film "Second Chorus," portrayed by Fred Astaire.
  • C. Tobias Furneaux
    Tobias Furneaux was an 18th-century British Royal Navy officer and explorer best known for accompanying James Cook on his second voyage to the Pacific.
  • D. Elliott Key
    Elliott Key is the largest island in Biscayne National Park, known for its subtropical coastal habitats, boating access, and recreational opportunities in South Florida’s Biscayne Bay.
  • E. Richard Hiscott
    Richard Hiscott is an editor known for his work on the television series "Willow."
  • F. None of above. chosen
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NEDg Description generation gpt-5.1
Instruction
Generate a one-sentence description of the target entity. 
You are given a context triple in the form (subject, predicate, object), where the object is the target entity. 
# Instructions
Use the triple to infer relevant information about the entity. Describe the entity based on what is most defining, well-known. 
Avoid repeating the information from the triple, unless really essential.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the target entity]"
Input
Entity: Saul Enderby
Triple: [Smiley’s People, character, Saul Enderby]
Generated description
Saul Enderby is a senior British intelligence officer in John le Carré’s George Smiley novels, notably portrayed as a politically attuned bureaucrat who contrasts with Smiley’s more traditional, moralistic spycraft.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Saul Enderby
Target entity description: Saul Enderby is a senior British intelligence officer in John le Carré’s George Smiley novels, notably portrayed as a politically attuned bureaucrat who contrasts with Smiley’s more traditional, moralistic spycraft.
  • A. Julius Enderby
    Julius Enderby is a high-ranking, somewhat fussy and conservative police commissioner in Isaac Asimov’s science fiction novel "The Caves of Steel."
  • B. Danny O'Neill
    Danny O'Neill is the charming, jazz-loving bandleader protagonist of the 1940 musical film "Second Chorus," portrayed by Fred Astaire.
  • C. Tobias Furneaux
    Tobias Furneaux was an 18th-century British Royal Navy officer and explorer best known for accompanying James Cook on his second voyage to the Pacific.
  • D. Elliott Key
    Elliott Key is the largest island in Biscayne National Park, known for its subtropical coastal habitats, boating access, and recreational opportunities in South Florida’s Biscayne Bay.
  • E. Richard Hiscott
    Richard Hiscott is an editor known for his work on the television series "Willow."
  • F. None of above. chosen

Provenance (5 batches)

The batch behind each pipeline step, in order, with when it ran. Timestamps are batch-level — stages were processed in waves, so the object chain (NER → NED1 → NEDg → NED2) reads in order, but predicate / elicitation batches can sit in a different wave.

Step Stage Batch ID Status When
creating Elicitation batch_69a88aaa9250819095e127d0d77e8a32 completed March 4, 2026, 7:40 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abc11b61888190af3b11b87dc8e0dc completed March 7, 2026, 6:09 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ae6b1948cc8190921b9fcc12c28db0 completed March 9, 2026, 6:39 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae6b748cfc8190903590abf822d71d completed March 9, 2026, 6:40 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae6be54c84819085753fa6d59e655c completed March 9, 2026, 6:42 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:47 p.m.